Fedora Hosted Project Guidelines (Ticket #847)

[Bill Wood]

These are very good points, Pierre! I figured these questions would come up
at some point.

If you go and look through the list of packages on fedorahosted.org, you'll
notice a lot of "Welcome to Trac!" homepages. The ones that were changed
from that are usually very sparse in words, and don't do a good job of
describing what the package is or does. It took me a very long time to find
the three examples that I put in the doc. Just looking through the site can
prove my point there.

For the checks, I'm thinking about ways to automate it. We would really
just need to crawl the database and look for specific things. Maybe we also
set up a community feedback system where users can tell us if there's not
enough content (kind of like Google Play, but not broken beyond repair) so
that we can go in and take a look at what's wrong. The goal is to have as
little work to physically do while keeping the site useful, and that has
been my mindset through this process.


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr>wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:01:57PM -0500, Bill Wood wrote:
> >    I've been thinking about a few ways we can clean up fedorahosted.organd,
> >    after talking with Kevin, I think I've got a good enough draft to let
> you
> >    guys give any input you might have. I've pasted the draft at
> >    http://paste.fedoraproject.org/98687/
>
> This was an interesting reading, but I have some questions regarding it:
>
> >  good bit of the projects on fedorahosted.org are not documented at all
> by
> >  their creators. Some haven't been updated in years and are
> >  probably abandoned.
>
> Do we have any information on this? Is this based on a "gut feeling" or on
> some
> actual data?
>
> > We archive projects that do not meet specific checks
>
> So these would be automated or manual checks? If the later, we'll need to
> figure
> out a mechanism for a project to move back to the list of active project
> no?
>
> The text you present here are meant to be placed on the FAQ? Or on the page
> presenting how we qualify project has been active or not?
>
> Basically the idea sounds fine but I am a bit wondering how big it is and
> how
> easy it would be to automate (because I don't think we would want manual
> checks).
>
>
> What's your thoughts? :)
>
>
> Pierre
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